Clinton calls Perry 'good-looking rascal'

Bill Clinton knows how to damn someone with faint praise as well as any politician, and he took on his fellow Southerner this morning, skewering the Texas governor's stump line that he will make Washington, in essence, smaller:

The audience — members of the International Association of Fire Fighters from across the United States and Canada — laughed.

Clinton, dressed in a dark suit and gray tie, continued his riff on Perry — who officially announced his presidential campaign on Saturday.

“And he’s saying ‘Oh, I’m going to Washington to make sure that the federal government stays as far away from you as possible — while I ride on Air Force One and that Marine One helicopter and go to Camp David and travel around the world and have a good time.’ I mean, this is crazy.”